Department of Psychology - Research Seminar 2009/10

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

21/10/09

Peter Walker (Lancaster)

Synaesthetic cross-modality correspondences: A thick, dim, slow, dull bloke ponders why lemons are fast, why a pinch on the skin is bright, and why toads croak more deeply to get sex

04/11/09

Gijsbert Stoet
(Leeds)

Sex differences in the processing of flankers

18/11/09

Frank Wood (Hope)

Winston Churchill's brain: How ADHD is sometimes advantageous to society

25/11/09

Panos Athanasopoulos (Bangor)

The Whorfian mind: How language shapes perception

16/12/09

Christmas Break

06/01/10

Jim Adie (Hope)

Motivational determinants of Well-being among Sport Participants: A Self-Determination Approach

20/01/10

Lorna Bourke (Hope)

Why are some children more able to develop better writing skills than others in their class? The story of young emergent writers

27/01/10

Baingio Pinna (University of Sassari, Italy)

MerseyLune Seminar on Cognitive Psychology & Neuroscience (at Liverpool Hope)

03/02/10

Andrej Stancak (University of Liverpool)

Imaging Pain

17/02/10

03/03/10

Antonino Raffone (Rome, Italy)

Mindfulness, consciousness and attention

17/03/10

Andrea Kiesel (Würzburg, Germany)

Unconscious Cognition: Mechanisms of subliminal response priming

26/03/10

Bruce Bridgeman (Santa Cruz, University of California, USA)

MerseyLune Seminar on Cognitive Psychology & Neuroscience (at University of Liverpool)

What change blindness tells us about how vision works

Easter Break

21/04/10

05/05/10

19/05/10

Luna Munoz (Lancashire)

From force to flowers: the evolution of psychopathy and the use of subtle forms of sexual coercion

tbc

Simon Eickhoff (Jülich/ Germany)

MerseyLune Seminar on Cognitive Psychology & Neuroscience (at University of Lancaster)